Elena Kagan is the dean of Harvard Law School and the Charles Hamilton Houston Professor of Law and has recently been announced as the next President of Harvard University. She previously served as a professor of law at the University of Chicago Law School. From 1995 to 1999, Dean Kagan served as Associate Counsel to U.S. President Bill Clinton and Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy and Deputy Director of the Domestic Policy Counsel. Harvard Law School (HLS) is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. ... Charles Hamilton Houston (1895–1950) was the black lawyer who killed Jim Crow. ... Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) , is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... The University of Chicago Law School is a part of the University of Chicago. ... William Jefferson Bill Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III[1] on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. ...

Kagan was born 28 April 1960 in New York City. She graduated from Hunter College High School in 1977, received an A.B. from Princeton University in 1981, an M. Phil. from Worcester College, Oxford University, in 1983, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1986. She was a law clerk for Judge Abner Mikva on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court. Nickname: Big Apple, Gotham, NYC Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1613  - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City 1,214. ... Hunter College High School, colloquially known as Hunter or HCHS, is a New York City magnet secondary school for gifted students located on Manhattans Upper East Side. ... Princeton University is a coeducational private university located in Princeton, New Jersey in the United States of America. ... Worcester College has been an institution of learning since the late thirteenth century, even though the current college was founded only in the eighteenth century. ... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... Harvard Law School (HLS) is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. ... Abner Joseph Mikva was a Democratic U.S. Congressman, federal judge, and law professor from Illinois. ... The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, or called simply the DC Circuit Court, is the federal appellate court for the U.S. district court in Washington, DC. Appeals from the DC Circuit, as with all the US Courts of Appeals, are heard by the... Template:Image name=Thurgood-marshall-2. ... The Supreme Court Building, Washington, D.C. The Supreme Court Building, Washington, D.C., (large image) The Supreme Court of the United States, located in Washington, D.C., is the highest court (see supreme court) in the United States; that is, it has ultimate judicial authority within the United States...

In 1999, President Clinton nominated Kagan to serve as a Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, but the Republican led Senate Judiciary Committee declined to bring her nomination forward for a hearing. The U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary (informally Senate Judiciary Committee) is a standing committee of the United States Senate, the upper house of the United States Congress. ...

Kagan has been dean of Harvard Law School since 2003 when she took over from Dean Robert C. Clark who had served as dean for over a decade. The focus of her tenure has been improving student satisfaction, constructing new facilities, and reviewing the legal curriculum. She has been credited for bringing new vigor to her post and for employing a consensus-building leadership style.

She also kicked off a $400 million capital campaign in 2003; it is scheduled to end in 2008. Reports are that the Law School has raised about $260 million to date, putting it slightly ahead of schedule. Kagan is also credited with overcoming ideological disputes among the Law school faculty that had hindered new faculty appointments.

Future Positions

• Kagan has been the subject of repeated speculation that she might be nominated to the Supreme Court of the United States if a Democratic president is elected ([1],[2]).

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Sources

• Harvard Gazette Article
• 2005 State of the school address
• Hemenway Gym Opens
• Dean Kagan off to a promising start
• As Harvard Seeks a President, Dean Kagan's Star Is Rising